levigation
- a word derived from levigate.
Example Sentences
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Fineness of texture is produced by extreme grinding and levigation.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
The most usual method of levigation is by means of a flat table ABCD, Pl.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
Some may be considered as purely mechanical, such as the determination of the weight and bulk of bodies, trituration, levigation, searching, washing, filtration, &c.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
Finally I discarded altogether the use of fresh white of egg, and had recourse to dry powdered albumen, prepared by drying in a steam oven and levigation in a mortar.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various
The trituration and levigation of powders, and the perennial abrasion and waste of the surface of solid bodies, occasion a disintegration of particles almost exceeding the powers of computation.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
